Sony Ericcson’s Play Now Plus

Sony Ericcson is trying to bring in competition for Nokia in the new unlimited music downloads customer service segment.  It is dubbed as Play now Plus, and will be launched to give some nail-to-nail competition to Nokia’s Comes With Music. The service will see that the customers get access to millions of tunes and customers can even keep upto 300 jams after their contract expires. Sony Ericcson’s Marketing Head Lennard Hoonrik stated that it will be available on Tellenor  in a few weeks and the invasion of the streaming will take place from Sweden to Western Europe within the first quarter of next year.

New Windows Live Hotmail On Your Desktop

Hotmail one of the first email providers are in the process of renovating its Windows Live Hotmail with new design and features to rival Google Mail, an upcoming email provider. New Live Hotmail claims to be more faster and better than their previous version and its no sooner gonna hit our browsers.

Faster than ever. It’ll be up to 70 percent faster to sign in and see your e-mail.¹ Of course, along with more speed, you’ll get powerful technology that deflects spam and helps protect you against viruses and scams.

Simpler, cleaner design. We’re combining the classic and full versions of Hotmail, so you get access to everything Hotmail has to offer. The reading pane will let you check out your e-mail without having to open it up.

Put more you in your e-mail. New themes and colors will let you design the look of your inbox, so your personality can really shine through.

Closer to your contacts. Just start typing in the “To” line and you’ll get a choice of e-mail contacts that most closely match what you’ve typed. Plus, it’ll be even easier to e-mail groups of people.

Cool stuff coming soon. We’ve got even more great updates to Hotmail for you to look forward to, like ever-increasing storage², the ability to IM right from Hotmail, and new calendar features that make it easier to share your calendar with family and friends.

Microsoft Ultimate Steal: Office 2007 @ $60

Microsoft has newly introduced an offer to the students named The Ultimate Steal, which allows the students to buy Microsoft Office Ultimate at $60. This offer is launched in US and will be soon launched in other countries too. So if you find yourself eligible for the game, do buy its the best ever deal you can get.

Microsoft student promotion slashes 91% off a copy of Office Ultimate wheresas Microsoft Office Ultimate, which retails for $680.

Besides Office Ultimate other products being offered on discounted price are:

• Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007 [$55.95]
• Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade [$64.95]
• Microsoft Office Language Packs [$9.95]

All you have to do is to meet the eligibility criteria that is you must have a valid email address at an educational institution ending with .edu or the educational institutions listed in the website. Eligiblity criteria as posted on the website is here

1. You must have a valid e-mail address at an educational institution ending with the domain suffix .EDU (ie, leina@contoso.edu) OR have a valid email address at one of the educational institutions listed here.
2. You must be a student at a U.S. educational institution and must be actively enrolled in at least 0.5 course credit and be able to provide proof of enrollment upon request.

So do get the mighty catch as soon as possible at Microsoft Ultimate Steal

Athlon 64 2000+ At 8-watts Outperforms Atom

AMD and Intel the two great chip manufactures has been in their pursuit to provide the fastest and the efficient processors to the industry. Despite several innovations AMD and Intel shouldering for some duration, Intel with its multi cores led the race. But now its AMD keeping on track to get on to the customer in a greener approach that is in terms of energy consumption.

Now as most of the companies are going for greener approach to their technologies, AMD is to have an advantage over the rival Intel. The Toms’ Hardware Test results between Intel 1.6GHz Atom 230 processor against AMD Athlon 64 2000+ claims that Athlon managed to outperform Atom both in terms of energy consumption and processing power. And hence claims that AMD is economical, faster and greener. So lets hope for more greener computing with AMD.

GBuy To Rival PayPal

Paypal had served millions of customers and merchants for years, still no one to rival, but its not the case now the with Google. Paypal has still remained the best payment mode and but its now the survival for the fittest. But with a competitor hope Paypal would go for certain cuts in the transaction charges. AS of now a user may lose about 2-5% while transacting and about 7-10$ while withdrawing money. And this is where the Google had come up with an introductory offer that is it would not charge merchants during the Beta Phase. And Google services never compromise on the quality and flexibility if their product. So its never bad to utilize the Beta Phase for all your transactions.

Apple Ready With The FixIT for iPhone 3G

For Apple its an endurance test to sustain the iPhone 3G in the market even more, because even before the initial orders of iPhone 3G are delivered, many started experiencing problems like call drop, reception issues etc. The so called privileged users of the iPhone 3G who just had dreamt of $200 gadget had costed them a triple of what the CEO of Apple Steve Jobs had promised. And its now the Business Week that had reported that Apple is finally out with the fix for all those issues but the only thing is that the users would have to endure the troubles till September to let on their devices to test the new fixes.

Reports say that the call drops occur when the iPhone3G switches from faster to slower networks that is while switching from an EDGE or GPRS network to 3G. The issue revolves around the coding on an Infineon chip with in the phone. The company claims that its confident of sorting out the problems and hence avoiding a Product Recall as its not that easy to service and recall all the millions of devices sold. And after all the reputation Apple gained from all the iPhone3G and the ex-iPhone would get on the earth. And its all the time factor thats going to determine the iPhone3G sales.

DataCase: Wireless HDD For iPhone

As the iGadgets have peacefully strolled through the “D day” attracting a millions of users to have a first glimpse of their very own iPhone3G. Its not been a smooth journey for the Apple to settle all those issues of the users getting activated their iPhones etc which had drastically slowed the iPhone3G pace. But now its the time to for another fancy and utility attachments for your gadget, Apple had introduced a new application which leverages your iPhone or iPod into a hard drive and is available at the AppStores.  Apple claims to have the iPhones and iPods able to stream audio and video via DataCase. Wondered! Its true DataCase transforms your peppy Apple Gadget into wireless harddrive that can be accessed through WiFi.

So how this works, its just a form of WiFi enable network Hard Drive. It consists of the Drop Box which is a write only directory used only for passive reading and the Shared Files directory enables both reading and writing of data. And unlike other variants, DataCase need not require any applications to installed prior to the operation. So wondered about the cost, DataCase will cost you $6.99 but very well not sure as the $199 game of iPhone3G did not even work at single place of its launch. Lets hope to have the DataCase for atleast $10 and not for $100.

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